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Join Date: Jun 2014
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Oil leak on freshly resealed motor

I just got my car on the road after 4 years of work restoring it. It runs/drives absolutely perfect, but is leaking oil and making me crazy. I think it's the flywheel seal. I wanted to get some insight from forum members so I hopefully will only have to drop the motor once to get it straight. The motor has new seals all around. I have read how people need to replace the flywheel seal upwards of 4 times before it stops.

- At idle it doesn't leak. I can run it for 20 minutes and nothing. Once I shut it down it
will leak.
- It usually will leak when I get the RPM's up. If I keep them down I usually don't get much of anything.
- Visual inspection leads me to believe it's the flywheel seal. I have no drips anywhere, but where the trans/engine casing meet. I was just in Europe for 2 weeks and when I came home there were 3 drips hanging from the case and a nice spot on the cardboard I left on the floor.
- I checked the top side of the motor and it seems dry and tight. All the culprits up top seem to be fine.

How come it doesn't just always leak when running? I am so confused by this one.
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